Connect
← Return to Volunteer/Research Opportunities for People with PMR and/or GCA
Discussion
Volunteer/Research Opportunities for People with PMR and/or GCA
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Sep 21 12:36pm | Replies (6)Comment receiving replies
You posted that PMR is not a type of Vasculitis. That is thought until I looked at the Vasculitis website. They list PMR an a type of Vasculitis. I’m confused
Replies to "You posted that PMR is not a type of Vasculitis. That is thought until I looked..."
You're right, I misspoke about the Vasculitis Foundation. They do include PMR as a vascular disease. I think of PMR more as an autoimmune disease that attacks the connective tissue around joints, but PMR and GCA probably are a single disease.
Connect
There is more and more recent evidence that PMR is not a vasculitis. There hasn't been enough time to update all the websites. Some people may claim PMR is a vasculitis based on outdated information.
Until all the evidence is presented one way or the other it is just my opinion that PMR is not a vasculitis. However PMR has some kind of relationship with vasculitis and especially GCA. The outdated view that PMR is a vasculitis stems from this close relationship with GCA.
Personally, I never thought PMR was a vasculitis but I don't know for sure. You can't disagree with self proclaimed experts who claim to know everything about PMR. I "respectfully disagreed" with one of the self proclaimed experts once. They said I was being disrespectful for disagreeing with them!